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New Podcast at Mysteryshows.com - "Suspense - A Little Matter Of Memory"

Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 10:26 AM

SUSPENSE September 30, 1954 "A Little Matter of Memory" was based on the story by James Helvick. A couple staying in an isolated cottage return from a walk only to discover a note on their door telling of a dangerous maniac on the loose. Very tense beginning and middle with some quintessential radio drama scenes, but the Third Act problems are nigh insurmountable. Having set the plot in motion, there are only a couple of ways that it can end. But kudos to Norman MacDonnell who produced and directed. Lawrence Dobkin played Edward and Paula Winslowe played Joan. Also appearing were Edgar Barrier, Joseph Kearns, and Richard Peel. James Helvick was a pseudonym for Francis Claud Cockburn (1904-1981), a British journalist and novelist who wrote an interesting book about the phenomenon of the best-selling novel. (He was also the cousin of Evelyn Waugh.)

"Ford Theater" added to "club members area". 25 Shows. The FORD THEATER, sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, presented hour long dramas first on NBC for one only season. The series moved to CBS for its second and last season.

"Jack Carson" added to "club members area". 34 Shows.Presented to you by Campbell’s Soup, it’s the Jack Carson Show. Created by and starring Jack Carson and sidekick Dave Willock, who got their start on Bing Crosby’s Kraft Music Hall in 1938. In this riotous show, Jack plays baffooned version of himself as a dumb-bell movie star. Dave Willock plays Jack’s nephew, who is constantly bringing him down a notch or two.

New Podcast at Mysteryshows.com - NICK CARTER - Eight Records of Death

Monday, December 8, 2008, 05:00 PM

The background is as interesting as the plot. Who remembered that sixty years ago you could make gramophone records in your own home the way you make CDs today? Here the lead-up to a murder is captured on record by the victim and it's up to Nick Carter to make sense of it all.

"Agatha Christie BBC Radio Plays" added to "club members area". 44 Shows. Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She has sold over two billion books worldwide and has been translated into over 45 languages. In a writing career that spanned more than half a century, Agatha Christie wrote eighty novels and short story collections. She also wrote over a dozen plays, including The Mousetrap, which is now the longest running play in theatrical history.

"50 Greatest OTR Shows" series added to "club members area". 50 Shows.Some of the best shows ever produced. Titles like 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court, Around the World in 80 Days, Casablanca, Grapes of Wrath, Gulliver's Travels, Red Badge of Courage, Snow White, The Time Machine, Wuthering Heights and many more.

"Zorro" series added to "club members area". 7 Shows: Posing as a foppish coward, Diego, a Spanish nobleman, fights injustice in colonial California. Upon his return from Spain, Diego realizes that Captain Pasquale is terrorizing the district and levying unreasonable taxes. Disguised as Zorro - a masked Robin Hood-like swashbuckler - the young Spaniard menaces the local authorities to the delight of all the peasants. In the meantime, posing as the inept fop, he is able to move through society without being suspected.

"Terry and the Pirates" series added to "club members area". 29 Shows: Broadcast 1937-1947 at various times Started Mon-Wed-Fri and changed to 5 times a week in 1941. The famed comics creator Milt Caniff created Terry and the Pirates, an action-packed adventure newspaper comics story that was adapted for radio. The first run of the show in the late 30's is considered lost, but many of the 1940's episodes are just as exciting as when kids who are now grandparents thrilled to hearing them on the radio.

One of the rare comical episodes of Suspense. Arthur Ross (writer) Elliott Lewis (director) and guest star Jack Benny combine to give us a whimsical thriller about a talkative small-town nobody who runs into an old acquaintance... who happens to be a bank robber. Jack is soon playing the leading role in a hold-up without knowing it. The robbers' theory is that he's such a boring and unmemorable type that none of the witnesses will even be able to describe him! Show review contributed by Mike from our OTR forum. Thanks Mike!

"On Stage" series added to "club members area". 42 Shows: On Stage provides a hodge podge of both classics and original stories, including mystery, drama, comedy, satire, and adventure. Although created at a time when radio was going out of style, On Stage is evidence of how good old time radio shows can be. With fewer constraints and less pressure due to the lack of financially-driven scripts, the Lewis duo let their creativity and talent explode into one of the greatest anthology shows of all time.

"Corsican Brothers" series added to "club members area". 52 Shows: A story of the early 1840's in which a set of Corsican twins, one introspective, the other combative, are ruled by a centuries-old vendetta. They are unaware of each other, but are drawn inextricably into familial duty, with its blood ties and vendetta-based webs of treachery.

"Chandu The Magician" series added to "club members area". 168 Shows: Chandu the Magician was a popular radio series that ran between 1932 and 1936 (and was later revived in 1948). The character was one of a number of mystical superheroes that were popular in the 1930s - others including the likes of The Shadow and Mandrake the Magician. Frank Chandler is an American agent known in the secret places of the far east as Chandu The Magician. He had learned magic from a yogi in India and used his occult powers and a crystal ball against Roxor, the criminal master-mind, amongst many other evils of the world.

"Cavalcade Of America" series added to "club members area". 293 Shows: Cavalcade of America was a weekly show, sponsored by the DuPont Company, on radio from 1935 to 1953. Originally on CBS the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.

"Calling All Cars" series added to "club members area". 268 Shows: A precursor to the Dragnet series, Calling All Cars followed true crime stories of the L.A.P.D. The show focused on the crime and the methods used to solve it.

"Red Ryder" series added to "club members area". 56 Shows: The Red Ryder radio series began February 3, 1942, on the Blue Network, broadcast three times a week at 7:30pm Pacific time. When the Blue also acquired The Lone Ranger from the Mutual Broadcasting System, Mutual decided to compete by airing Red Ryder in the same time period. Thus, Red Ryder aired on the East Coast that year from May 20 to September 9 on Mutual. The series actually beat The Lone Ranger in the Hooper ratings, but the success was short-lived. When Red Ryder was sold to a regional sponsor, Langendorf Bread, it was no longer heard in the East after four months.

"Lightning Jim" series added to "club members area". 41 Shows: This collection includes the few surviving episodes of Lightning Jim attempting to portray the history of how the "west was won" through the eyes of Lightning Jim. It includes adventures with famous individuals from the history of the west including Wild Bill Hickock.

"Dark Island" series added to "club members area". 6 Shows: THE DARK ISLAND is a story of espionage in the remote islands of the Outer Hebrides. It starts out with the discovery of a strange, unidentified torpedo, found washed up on shore of a small, nearly uninhabited island.

"Big Town" series added to "club members area". 82 Shows: Crime Drama (1937 - 1952). Big Town is a story about Steve Wilson, managing editor of the crusading Illustrated Press, and his pursuit of truth and justice. The role was first played by the illustrious Edward G. Robinson from 1937 to 1942 and was broadcast out of Hollywood.

"Big John and Sparkie" series added to "club members area". 98 Shows: Although Jon Arthur created and produced Big Jon and Sparkie for kids, it is a wonderfully inventive and gently humorous show that many adults will find utterly charming.

"Buck Rogers" series updated in "club members area". Added 37 more shows. In 1932, the Buck Rogers radio program, notable as the first science fiction show on radio, hit the airwaves. The radio program aired four times a week for 15 years, from 1932 through 1947. It told the story of a person from our own time finding himself in the 25th Century.